[IPC-GNSO] Fwd: [CCWG-ACCT] [Blog] Building an Enhanced, Community Empowered ICANN

[Greg Shatan]

All,

The latest ICANN Blog may be of interest.

Greg

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From: Hillary Jett <hillary.jett at icann.org>
Date: Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 4:27 PM
Subject: [CCWG-ACCT] [Blog] Building an Enhanced, Community Empowered ICANN
To: CCWG-Accountability <accountability-cross-community at icann.org>


Original link:
https://www.icann.org/news/blog/building-an-enhanced-community-empowered-icann

Building an Enhanced, Community Empowered ICANN
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The submission <https://www.icann.org/stewardship-accountability> of the
IANA Stewardship Transition Package to the U.S. Government last month
marked the end of an impressive proposal development effort by the global
multistakeholder community. It also marked the beginning of the next,
intense period of work, to ensure that the proposals can be implemented in
a timely manner if they’re accepted.

We’ve seen significant progress since the submission, with a great deal of
focus for ICANN and the community on updating ICANN’s Bylaws. The National
Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has said they need
to see adoption of any changes to ICANN’s Bylaws before they can complete
their anticipated 90-day review. To meet this aggressive timeline,
immediately following the ICANN55 meeting in Marrakech, a drafting team was
formed consisting of ICANN’s legal team and the two external law firms
involved with the Community Working Group (CWG-Stewardship) and Cross
Community Working Group (CCWG-Accountability).

The drafting team is working closely with representatives of all the
involved community groups and theICANN Board to ensure that the updated
Bylaws accurately reflect the recommendations in the IANAStewardship
Transition Coordination Group (ICG) and the CCWG-Accountability proposals.
Consistent with the current timeline, we will post the new draft Bylaws for
a 30-day public comment period on 20 April 2016, with tentative adoption by
27 May. The Bylaws will only become effective upon the successful
completion of the transition.

We are also continuing our joint planning efforts to remove NTIA’s
administrative role from the root zone management system (outlined in my recent
blog update
<https://www.icann.org/news/blog/a-progress-update-ensuring-the-security-stability-and-resiliency-of-root-zone-maintenance>),
and as announced <https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2016-04-08-en> last
week, ICANN and Verisign are currently undertaking a 90-day “parallel
testing” period of the Root Zone Management System (RZMS). The parallel
testing period is part of the proposal
<https://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/root_zone_administrator_proposal-relatedtoiana_functionsste-final.pdf>
 that ICANN and Verisign submitted toNTIA in August 2015.

Additionally, we hope to complete two other critical agreements this month
– the Service Level Agreement with the five Regional Internet Registries (
RIR) and the Memorandum of Understanding Supplemental Agreement with the
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). We will make the drafts of these
agreements available for a 30-day public review period prior to ICANN Board
consideration.

To keep everyone informed on all these strands of planning, we will start
publishing weekly updates on icann.org beginning next week. I encourage
anyone who’s interested in the transition’s implementation details to check
back for those updates.

There are 25 weeks left until the end of the current term of the IANA Functions
contract with NTIA. We clearly have a lot of work to do as an organization
and a community to be fully prepared, but the end goal of an enhanced,
community empowered, independent ICANN, is well within sight.

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